Ringling, Ringling — Jimmy Buffett

Ringling, ringling

By: jimmy buffett

1974

Ringlin', ringlin' slippin' away

Only forty people livin' there today

Streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down

It's a dyin' little town

Church windows broken, that place ain't been used in years

Jail don't have a sheriff or a cell

And electric trains they run by maybe once or twice a month

Easin' it on down the muscle shell

Chorus:

Ringlin', ringlin' slippin' away

Only forty people livin' there today

'cause the streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down

It's a dyin' little town

And across from the bar there's a pile of beer cans

Been there twenty-seven years

Imagine all the heartaches and tears

In twenty-seven years of beer

So we hopped back in the rent-a-car

And we hit the cruise control

Pretty soon the town was out of site

Though we left behind a fat barmaid, a cowboy, and a dog

Bracin' for a ringlin' friday night

Chorus:

Ringlin', ringlin' you're just slippin' away

I wonder how many people will be there a year from today

'cause the streets are dusty and the bank has been torn down

It's a dyin' little town

Yeah, it's a dyin' little town